Speeches by Moran.

“One final slight about-turn: we heard a lot of the conversation about tariffs. You will know about President Trump’s approach to our NHS in the past when it came to UK-US trade negotiations; he had his eye firmly on parts of the NHS. You have said publicly that nothing is off the table. Does that include everything to …”

“Indeed, which is about the bill for the NICs increase.”

“We are currently looking at this on the Health and Social Care Committee and have been surprised to find that the Government have barely looked at it through that lens. Perhaps an undertaking from you to look at it through that lens would help the Treasury to see what you and I clearly both see, which is that social ca…”

“Very true. Do you see social care as mainly a drain on the Treasury or as an enabler to the economy?”

“Following on from the question of Ms Owen and in particular thinking about those with disabilities, we had a roundtable of the Health and Social Care Committee in this very room and, almost where I am sat, was a woman who described her experience of NHS and care. To paraphrase her, she said, “The NHS keeps me alive, bu…”

“Including in all the areas that I have just mentioned?”

“Which isn’t actually going to deliver anything new. It is just going to pay you.”

“We need a ceasefire now—again—because the situation on the ground is as bad as it has ever been, if not worse. I spoke to my friend whose family are in Gaza and he told me that last week their home was bombed multiple times while they were sheltering in the basement with no food or water. They are now barely surviving,…”

“I have to say that I am none the wiser about what exactly has happened. If we are to ensure that this will not happen again—that these deadlines will be met—we need to know how we got into this position. It may well be the fault of the previous Government. Will this Government commit to a full review of exactly how we …”

““Hyperdynamic” is one word for it. I have one more question. Julian Kelly, it has been reported that you were going to stand down anyway but you have expedited it following the announcement from Amanda Pritchard. It is worth saying, Chair, that we have Sir Stephen Powis, who served for seven years as national medical d…”

“Can I ask Professor Chris Whitty about this? I have a concern that form should determine the function. We have the 10-year plan coming but not yet published and yet we have already decided that 50% is the number for ICBs and the wider teams. Are you concerned that we have an arbitrary number and there is not a form tha…”

“Is this what the change board—or whatever it calls itself—is going to be working out?”

“Thank you very much, Chair, and thank you for having me. To follow up on that point, Julian Kelly, if I may, is the 50% cut for each ICB? Are they being asked to each find 50%? My concern is that there are some ICBs that are delivering services pretty efficiently. Partly how they are doing that is, for example, having …”

“Were you asked to leave by Sir James Mackey?”

“This is a bold change indeed. The job of my Committee is to help the Secretary of State to do it, so let me start by asking him to come in front of the Committee as quickly as possible—certainly before Easter—because there is a lot of detail that we need to drill down into. On a more substantive point, the right hon. M…”

“Is their last day also 31 March?”

“Will the 10-year plan clarify who within DHSC versus who within NHSE is responsible for which bit? I suppose I am trying to get to, if it is a number of 50% but we do not yet have the plan, how we know what the balance should be. Maybe it should be a 70/30 split.”

“I thank the hon. Member very much; these people are indeed incredibly brave. What we are trying to show is that it happens to men and women, it is discrimination, it is sexual harassment, and it is ubiquitous—it is happening everywhere and it is happening now. We are not seeking to silence people. In fact, new clause 7…”

“I rise to speak to new clause 74, which appears in the name of the right hon. Member for Sheffield Heeley (Louise Haigh). I pay tribute to her and say that the Back Benches are very lucky to have her. May I also pay tribute to Mr B, whose story she told so movingly? The campaign to redress the power imbalance for those…”

“Absolutely. This is exactly the kind of behaviour that we need to put a stop to. The young woman eventually reached a settlement, but it was extremely one-sided. She panicked, because the NDA gagged not just her but her partner, her best friends and her parents, but it did not gag the men or the senior executives invol…”